Families

Families are dynamic systems with complex relationships. When one person in the family is struggling, there is an impact on everyone.

The types of issues that families can bring to therapy and gain better insight, clarity, communication and healing are:

•  Divorce, separation, new blended families and co-parenting
•  Addiction, eating disorders or mental health issues in a family member
• A grief or trauma that the whole family has experienced in different ways
• Something from the past or the present that is causing a family to feel stuck, now
• Fighting about the same thing on repeat, or struggling with communicating your needs.

Sometimes, there is one family member who will come to therapy for mental health issues, and it can be important for them to be able to invite their support system ( family members or significant others). Their family knows their story, their strengths,  triggers and challenges, and they will be there long after therapy has finished.

Family therapy can support a new family system coming together and support the transition. We know that the modern family can often be a blended or includes extended family and carries intergenerational bonds, strengths, and burdens.

Family therapy can include 2 members or more at one time in the session and can create a safe place to have sensitive, loving and sometimes tough conversations for everyone with my support, experience and training.

Let’s dispel a myth: there is no such thing as a perfect or normal family. There is just your kind of normal.

There are times when it is not safe to do family work for good reasons, and you can be guided around that decision with my professional support.